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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1132859" data-attributes="member: 3570">Wow.  Saw it earlier tonight and was blind-sided by how good it was.  I'm glad I was just in the mood for this kind of movie, otherwise all the negative buzz might have steered me away from a surprisingly well done film.Kate Beckinsale was stunning in every scene, the Lycans were nicely established as the bigger "bad asses", and it actually had a story.  Nothing mind blowing like the original Matrix (which Underworld greatly emulates in style), but just enough to give actual meaning to the many action sequences.Beckinsale's love interest isn't a throw-away male-modelish character (as randomly they tend to be in female action hero films, ie Tomb Raider et al), but he had a fair degree of charisma, complimenting Kate without stealing the show at the end.And finally we get back to the glory (or should I say gory) days of American Werewolf in London and The Howling with bone-popping prosthetic werewolf transformations.  Oh there was a little CGI, but it was very sparing, and used quite appropriately, such as when the Lycans were running along the walls.  Everything else was convincing and cool on-set make-up effects.I was also apprehensive that they'd go off on death metal guitar riffs to play up the intensity, but nope, even the soundtrack was cool.I liked almost everything about this movie.  Beckinsale was established nicely as an almost Neo-like force, yet wrestling with emotional vulnerabilities and facing much more menacing adversaries on both sides of the war.  Melodramatic to the core, but I loved every minute of it.By far the best vampire OR werewolf movie ever made, and one of the year's most surprising discoveries.  Very nice.</blockquote>

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